Minerals - Trace elements

The mineral substances or volume elements “are conceptually by the” trace elements “and distinguished volume defined as inorganic food components whose Essentialist in humans in quantities exceeding 50 mg / day to demonstrate experimentally. In preventive medicine, especially calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium and sodium (with chlorine) than volume elements are outstanding importance.

Trace elements are essential physiological importance. If they are not the body of food and drinking water fed, there will be shortages; an excessive intake may be toxic. The trace elements are assigned to all chemical elements, whose share of total body mass of less than 0.01 percent. In the Preventive Medicine are the trace elements iron (Fe), iodine (J), copper (Cu), manganese (Mn), selenium (Se), zinc (Zn) and cobalt (Co) elementary important.